But Abraham said, Son, remember that you received your good things
during your lifetime and Lazarus got the evil things. Now he is
comforted, and you are tormented. And, beside all this, there is a
great gulf between us that cannot be crossed from either side.
Then the rich man said, Then I beg you, father, send him to my
father's house. I have five brothers. Let him testify to them so they
do not also come into this place of torment.
Abraham answered, They have Moses and the prophets. Let them hear
them. The rich man said, No, father Abraham. Only if one went to them
from the dead will they repent. Then Abraham said to him, If they do
not hear Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded by one who
rose from the dead.
17 Then He said to the disciples, It is certain that offences
must come: but woe to him, through whom they come! It would be better
for him that a millstone were hung around his neck and he be cast into
the sea, than to have offended one of these little ones.
Take heed: If thy brother trespasses against thee, rebuke him. If he
repents, forgive him. If he trespasses against you seven times in a
day, and seven times in a day, repents; forgive him. Then the apostles
said to the Lord, Increase our faith.
The Lord said, If you have faith even as small as a grain of mustard
seed, you can say to this tree, Be thou plucked up by the root and
planted in the sea; and it will obey you.
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